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Definition
to continue — often despite difficulty
- She no longer considered the dogs, and because she was sore and tired, she persisted in riding on the sled.Chapter 5 — The Toil of Trace and Trail (61% in)
- Again Buck knew them as things heard in that other world which persisted in his memory.Chapter 7 — The Sounding of the Call (85% in)
There are no more uses of "persist" in The Call of the Wild.
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